Library Assistant
Education Industry Company
Washington, DC, United States
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Job Details
Position Description
Library Acquisitions
- Search HOLLIS for bibliographic order records
- Inspect newly-arrived books and journals
- Prepare approval plan books for return to publisher
Library Technical services (i.e. processing and collection maintenance)
- Receive new monographs and journals in Alma
- Update ALMA item records, holdings records and bibliographic records for new monographs and journals
- Label (and barcode when needed) new books and journals
- Keep track of duplicates and coordinate donations as necessary
- Prepare and receive bindery shipments
- Prepare orders for custom archival enclosures
- Perform basic book repairs
- Assist with library physical inventory
- Assist in submitting interlibrary loan requests
- Receive and return interlibrary loan materials
Library Circulation
- Check in and shelve circulated items
- Search for missing books
- Update library signage (e.g. call number range signs, journal list)
- Space management: Contribute to ongoing physical space analysis
- Space management: Assist with periodic shelf shifts
- Assist users with checking out books
- Renew checked-out books for long-term users
Fulfill scanning requests and search HOLLIS for online copies of requested scans
- Set up library card accounts for new patrons w/o HarvardKeys; add identifiers to create library cards for fellows
- Assist users with locating books
Basic Qualifications
2+ years of substantial library or related work experience required. Experience in Computing in Humanities
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